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Inspiring Events

Since 2010, Findhorn International Centre for Sustainability has operated its services as part of the globally recognised 60-year-old Findhorn Foundation within the Findhorn Ecovillage Community. We are committed to supporting organisational leaders working towards a sustainable future. Many of our guests return year after year as they find our events so nourishing and stimulating.
Vision

A global network of professionals collaborating to create a regenerative and compassionate world.
Mission

Set in a unique learning environment, FICS brings together changemakers from all fields to launch ideas and actions which support a regenerative and compassionate world. We invite participants to bring all of themselves into full presence in order to catalyse deeply transformative conversations and connections.
Completely transformational on a personal, professional and spiritual level. This is a place of tolerance and acceptance which holds the essence of things. It’s been different from any other training or workshop I’ve been part of before.
Nezha Larhrissi, Former Senior COP22 Advisor to the Moroccan Minister of Environment.
Findhorn International Centre for Sustainability (FICS) is part of the Findhorn Ecovillage - a thought leader, a living experiment, an evolving ecological settlement and an innovator in personal and professional development for over half a century. 

The programmes run here address both the externals of sustainability and the importance of the inner life of humans in their search for meaning and purpose. Guests from across the world are drawn to the extraordinary combination of low carbon lifestyles with an organisational ethic dedicated to all areas of sustainability.

Forget presentations in slick hotels with minimal time for personal interaction. FICS programmes are rich participatory experiences which address both the externals of sustainability and the importance of the inner life of humans in their search for meaning and purpose. 
?Why Findhorn
As the holder of UN Habitat Best Practice designation, FICS is an ideal place to not only dream dreams, but to plan how to make them a reality. We view the FICS as the ‘alternative Davos’ providing a holistic, human worldview that stops institutional truths from eclipsing individual truth.

FICS provides a place to envisage a different version of modernity drawing on the authority of lived experience. Philosophising about life is interesting but there is no alternative to the practical demonstration of alternatives.

We invite you to meet yourself and other sustainability professionals in a new way, surrounded by the beauty of northern Scotland - bay, beach, dunes, forest, eco-buildings, a natural waste water purification system, wind generators, recycled whisky barrel houses and organic gardens.
Organisers and Facilitators
Member of the Findhorn Ecovillage Community for over 20 years, a former member of the Management Team of the Findhorn Foundation, co-founder of Findhorn International Centre for Sustainability and co-convenor of the New Story Summit in 2014. She is now self employed, committed to all areas of personal, social, ecologic and economic health and regeneration.

Robin is an executive coach, facilitator, and organisational development consultant. His approach is emergent and eclectic, drawn from disciplines including Jungian archetypal psychology, Process Oriented Psychology, and the timeless wisdom encoded in the mystical traditions. Since arriving in the Findhorn Foundation in 1995, he has co-founded the Findhorn Consultancy Service and Open Circle Consulting and delivered his work on all continents and across all sectors.  His current fields of inquiry include Leading from the Future, Facilitating Transformational Fields, and Trauma-informed Leadership.  He has led numerous programmes at the Findhorn Foundation including 12 successive Forums on Sustainability. Robin’s full bio can be downloaded here.

Robin Alfred

International facilitator, team and individual coach, trainer and consultant, at the Findhorn Consultancy, Gill has worked throughout Europe, Latin America and SE Asia, running in-depth training programmes and facilitating leadership teams. Her work is process oriented and systemic, fostering change in individuals, teams and organisations. She has taught leadership development and conflict facilitation up to postgraduate level. She specialises in running in-depth training programmes in facilitation, leadership, diversity and community building. She also collaborates with international and local NGO networks, facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogues across various sectors. Gill is also a founding member of the Institute of Trabajo de Procesos in Barcelona,  and teaches in the UK and Italian Processwork training programmes.  

Gill Emslie PhD

FICS Advisory Board
I loved the diversity of the group and the slow and holistic pace that actually allowed real progress. A special experience in a special place reminding me of what I can achieve.
Matt Hale, Director of Catalytic Social Finance. Formerly with Sustainable Banking Group, Merrill Lynch and European Treasurer for US banks - Bankers Trust.
The Ecovillage Project at Findhorn began in the 1980s as a logical extension of the work the community had been undertaking with nature since its founding in 1962. The Findhorn Community had been experimenting by working closely with nature to build a sustainable lifestyle. Through this work, the community has contributed significantly to the development of the ecovillage movement worldwide. 
Ecovillage Location
An ecovillage, defined as being ecologically, economically, culturally and spiritually sustainable, is a living experiment that forms the backdrop to all of our programmes and events. There are now 90 ecological buildings, three wind generators and a biological sewage treatment plant called The Living Machine, in addition to a variety of social and cultural technologies.